This notice is to alert you to changes in the Animal Product Manual.
APHIS recognizes that the animal disease rinderpest (RP) has been eradicated worldwide and, as a result, all restrictions to regulations concerning communicable diseases of livestock and poultry, interstate transportation and importation of animals (including poultry) and animal products, and permits for biological products have been amended to remove references to the animal disease rinderpest (RP). The Animal Product Manual has been amended as necessary in accordance with Docket No. APHIS-2017-0070; Rinderpest; Update of Communicable Animal Disease Provisions effective April 11, 2018.
Specific manual changes are listed below.
Rinderpest (RP) mentions have been deleted throughout the manual. The impacted chapters are:
- Chapter 2-1 Procedures Preparation
- Chapter 3-4 Camelid and Cervid Products
- Chapter 3-10 Hides and Related By-Products
- Chapter 3-14 Milk/Milk Products
- Chapter 3-15 Miscellaneous Biological Products: Micro-Organisms, Cell Cultures, Test Kits, and Biosynthesized Materials (Including Vaccines)
- Chapter 3-17 Ruminant Meat and Meat Products
- Chapter 3-19 Swine Products
- Index
Links contained throughout the manual in the Table of Contents, List of Figures, List of Tables, Index as well as internal and external cross-references and hyperlinks have been updated as necessary.
Amy L. Frevert
Writer, USDA-APHIS-PPQ-IRM-Manuals Unit
(240) 529-0352
amy.l.frevert@aphis.usda.gov
